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by shalabhc 6y ago
On the topic of modules, I recommend reading about modules in Newspeak: https://bracha.org/newspeak-modules.pdf Modules (which are just top level classes and contain nested classes) have no import statement and no hard link
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by shalabhc 6y ago
A lot of replies are missing the point. It's not "apps integrate better with each other". It is "there are no apps". So what would Adobe sell, if not the "Photoshop app"? It would sell the Photoshop "
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by shalabhc 6y ago
Agree. I'm usually very frustrated with the app boundaries, poor system wide integration and so much duplication of work. Another essay about computing without apps is https://humane.computer/killing-apps/
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by shalabhc 6y ago
Thank you. How much of this problem do you think is solved by Monticello, if you've used it?
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by shalabhc 6y ago
What do you think it would take to make such systems suitable for deployment? Do you have to give up the productivity?
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by shalabhc 6y ago
There's a two part podcast on futureofcoding.org with the creator of Orca, Devine Lu Linvega: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044 https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/045
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by shalabhc 7y ago
This isn't about building software similar to what we currently have and just making it more end user configurable. This is about rethinking software so that end user malleability makes sense. What does such software even look like? We
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by shalabhc 7y ago
I've been using the hosted version of this ( https://www.talkyard.io ) on a blog for a while and have been very satisfied. I like how the threaded discussion looks, and also like the live preview edit box which works well for
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by shalabhc 7y ago
Thank you for the implicit praise! Seems like this would be an interesting list of essays - is it publicly shared?
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by shalabhc 7y ago
Seems so. Also this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/RainerJoswig/status/1213484071952752640 - all commands have uniform introspection - console contains 'live views', not dead text - embedded REPL in
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by shalabhc 7y ago
(Author here) It's not about interfaces being an impediment but there being too many composition models, none of which seem to scale very well. A composition model is more than an interface. E.g. the way you compose a C program is you
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by shalabhc 7y ago
(Author here) Your comment about scaling is on point. We're building on a system that not just enables but encourages a large amount of duplicated work because the substrate we've settled on is bytearray oriented. So all PLs and p
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by shalabhc 7y ago
Perhaps a combination of cultural and technical feedback loops? Technology selects folks that like 'playing computer in your head' as Victor said [1]. This grows a culture where tools that help you avoid mentally simulating the
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by shalabhc 7y ago
For comments, fully agree that we don't need several isolated systems (source files, docs, commit messages, ...) How about one system which is a hypermedia system and can hold many different kind of objects. So annotation objects can
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by shalabhc 7y ago
Here's another Lisp Machine demo showing some of these ideas in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk
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by shalabhc 7y ago
hypothes.is does exactly this, except it uses pdf.js It doesn't matter where you load a PDF from (locally or any online source) the public annotations are overlaid.
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Howl is a programmable text editor built with LuaJIT(howl.io)
2 points by shalabhc 7y ago|0 comments
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Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that's not Linux-derived(phantomos.org)
112 points by shalabhc 7y ago|50 comments
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by shalabhc 7y ago
If you like this you might also like http://terralang.org
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Propositions Are Not Types (2018)(medium.com)
16 points by shalabhc 7y ago|17 comments
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by shalabhc 7y ago
One more for ya. - DB/field annotations for privacy - given it's 'one integrated system', can we attach a privacy attributes to fields or db and automatically hide them everywhere (even in the dev view?)
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by shalabhc 7y ago
Great analysis. I also think you have 'small operators' and 'large operators' in middle and right. Consider a large number of small consultants building small-ish websites with some interactivity and state for small clie
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by shalabhc 7y ago
Great stuff! My suggestion is to really leverage the possibilities opened up by the design choices that make Dark different - the structural editing and db/infra/editor integration. E.g.: - Have multiple projectional views of the
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by shalabhc 7y ago
I'm not sure the article is implying anything about Alan. Hard to tell, there seems to be something missing in the piece. But one thing the article does argue about is what can and cannot be called OOP. It seems completely reasonable t
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by shalabhc 7y ago
I think more interesting than 'who made X first' is 'what did X mean to A vs B'. So irrespective of whether Simula had objects first or Smalltalk did, the debate should be how Kay's perspective of objects was differ
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Unix Considered Harmful(zge.us.to)
1 points by shalabhc 7y ago|0 comments
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by shalabhc 7y ago
Great write-up and I agree with many points. I don't think the 'Lisp language' is the key point here though, but the other OS properties like a single level store and composition methods richer than byte arrays. Would be nice
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by shalabhc 7y ago
Random Dart question - how is the standalone Dart VM implemented? What is it written in, is there a bytecode, etc? And is there a place where more details are available?
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by shalabhc 7y ago
Ted Nelson recently did a series of videos on the important ideas in Xanadu. Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac Also you can buy his classic 'Computer Lib' book here: https://comput
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by shalabhc 8y ago
I think operation level consistency policies are more useful than DB level. For instance, saying bounded stale reads are OK for some operation could be useful for the high read scenarios and hopefully the system will materialize a cache.

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